new user cannot make program run

[kinglev]

I just got a macbook pro and I wanted to run a game called Fallen Evolution. I downloaded Wine and used it to install this program with the installer. But when i clicked the .exe file to run the game nothing happened. I tried both running it directly and creating an app bundle but no matter what I just get a small black window that does not respond. It contains a bunch of sfx, gfx, ini, jbox, and inf files in which it pull the graphics and sounds to run the game. I suspect this may be why the .exe does not work. How should I proceed to make this app work? here is a picture of all the files associated with the app in the wine files folder:

[Siguza]

No, you did not install Wine. You installed something called WineBottler, which uses Wine.
Here's what it says right at the top of the forum page:

WineBottler, Wineskin, PlayOnMac, etc are not supported here

I also don't have any experience with WineBottler, but I can tell you how to get Wine itself working.

1. Open the App Store and install XCode
2. If you are on Mavericks, download and install XQuartz
3. Open the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and run those two lines:

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   sudo xcode-select --install
   sudo xcodebuild -license

4. Download and install MacPorts
5. Again in the Terminal, run

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   sudo port install wine

   (this can take very long)
6. Download this app and unzip it, then click an exe in Finder, press cmd-i, go to the "open with" section, select this app (OpenWithWine) and then click "change for all".

Then you should be able to run any exe by double-clicking in.
Also, the console log for all exe's will be written to /tmp/wine-<program name>.exe.log (in Finder, hit cmd-shift-g and type "/tmp" if you want to see them).

Regards
Siguza

[kinglev]

thank you very much for the help! now that I went through all 6 steps I can finally run the installers for these .exe files however when I click the main app it pops up for a second then disappears. I went to the games website and there are some settings it said I should change in the wine config. How do I get to the wine config to change settings?

[Siguza]

Just in case anyone comes ever looking for my wrapper application, I moved it here.

Regards
Siguza